Pogano: the very limited PGN fetcher

This tool fetches PGN files from The Week in Chess and lichess to a local directory and optionally into a SCID database

Building

Gradle is the build tool of choice, leveraging the Application plugin to build a nice distribution directory. Invoke thusly:

gradle installDist

This will result in a distribution folder located at:

<POGANO_HOME>/build/install/pogano

You can run directly from there or move the directory at your pleasure.

Configuring

The main config file is pogano.properties, which is located in src/dist and copied to the root directory of the install folder (build/install/pogano) after building

Running

After building and configuring, do:

$> bin/pogano[.bat]

You can also run with CLI args:

$> bin/pogano[.bat] --help

The primary use case is to run this once to fetch all current history (--fetchAll --allHistory) and then to subsequently run --allSince in order to get the latest games in either/both TWIC and lichess. The support this, the last fetched id will be saved to the lastFetchId property in pogano.properties after each run.

Scheduleing

So you'd like to have pogano run regularly? Well, I can't help you much beyond saying use cron or the Windows scheduler.